IoT Foundations: Operating Systems Fundamentals

Learn about using an operating system for IoT. Explore concepts, examples, characteristics, technical requirements, task management, memory management, and the OS kernel FreeRTOS.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. Introduction to Operating Systems for IoT

• Why we need operating systems
• OS characteristics for IoT
• General-purpose OS vs. embedded OS

2. Overview of Existing Operating Systems for IoT

• OSs for resource-constrained devices
• Linux OSs
• Windows 10 IoT Core

3. Introduction to FreeRTOS

• Overview of FreeRTOS
• System architecture
• Get started with FreeRTOS
• Run FreeRTOS on the nRF51 DK board

4. Tasks

• Task execution parallelism
• Task scheduler
• Task management
• Thread safety
• Deadlock

5. Intertask Communication

• Queue
• Semaphore and mutex

6. Memory Management

• Memory allocation
• First fit algorithm

7. Timers

• Use software timers

8. Inputs and Outputs

• I/O devices and peripherals
• Interrupts

9. Debugging

• Debug your OS-based applications

Conclusion

• Next steps